COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State and Clemson fans have a baseline for evaluating this season’s College Football Playoff semifinal in the Sugar Bowl. They know their own team, and they know the opponent from the semifinal last year. A year and three days after they met in the 2019 Fiesta Bowl, the Buckeyes and Tigers are meeting again on Jan. 1 for the right to play for the national title. Last season, it was No. 2 Ohio State, at 13-0, vs. No. 3 Clemson, at 13-0. This season, it’s No. 2 Clemson, at 10-1, vs No. 3 Ohio State, at 6-0.. So let’s use the past to evaluate the present. I teamed up with Matt Connolly, the veteran Clemson beat writer for The State newspaper and thestate.com in Columbia, S.C., to break down the position groups for each team, and to evaluate whether those groups are better, worse or about…
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